Rescue of “The Visiter”
Type: Famous People, Sites of Historic Interest
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An Historic Rescue
Residents and visitors travelling between Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay one sunny day in August 1999 would have met with a most unusual sight. A restored lifeboat built in 1887 was being pulled along the road by horses and men in a re-enactment of a similar event which had taken place over 100 years earlier.
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